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Harold Innis and the North

William J. Buxton
Harold Innis and the North Book PDF

Author : William J. Buxton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773588769

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Harold Innis and the North by William J. Buxton Pdf

Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies. This collection reveals that Innis's advocacy of the North was closely bound up with his vision of northern Canada as the site of a second industrial revolution based on mining, hydro-electric power, pulp and paper, and enabled by new forms of transportation. Long preoccupied with Canada's coming of age as a balanced and integrated industrial nation-state, Innis grappled with the same issues about the North in the Canadian nation that we are dealing with today. Chapters explore the breadth of Innis's northern activities, including his early studies of the fur trade, his biography of eighteenth-century explorer and cartographer Peter Pond, his review essays on the North for the Canadian Historical Review, his leadership of the Rockefeller-sponsored Arctic Survey, and his trip to the Soviet Union. Harold Innis and the North crafts a new narrative about the nature and scope of Innis's intellectual project and provides a unique appreciation of his multi-faceted professional identity. Contributors include Sergei Arkhipov (North-Ossetian State University and NGO Vladikavkaz Institute of Economics) Jeffrey Brison (Queens), George Colpitts (Calgary), Matthew Evenden (UBC), Barry Gough (Churchill College, Cambridge and Kings College, London), Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Laurier), Jim Mochoruk (North Dakota), Liza Piper (Alberta), Shirley Roburn (Concordia), Peter van Wyck (Concordia), Jeff Webb (Memorial).

Harold Innis in the New Century

William Buxton,Charles R. Acland
Harold Innis in the New Century Book PDF

Author : William Buxton,Charles R. Acland
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773517370

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Harold Innis in the New Century by William Buxton,Charles R. Acland Pdf

A collection of original essays that moves beyond the prevalent view of Harold Innis as a technological determinist, Harold Innis in the New Century brings his innovative ideas to bear upon a variety of contemporary issues, such as postmodernism, liberalism, gender, and cultural policy.

The Fur Trade in Canada

Harold Adams Innis
The Fur Trade in Canada Book PDF

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802081967

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The Fur Trade in Canada by Harold Adams Innis Pdf

A classic work of Canadian historical scholarship, first published in 1930. In his new introduction, A.J. Ray states that this book is argueably the most definitive economic history and geography of Canada ever produced.

Harold Innis and the North

William J. Buxton
Harold Innis and the North Book PDF

Author : William J. Buxton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773588776

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Harold Innis and the North by William J. Buxton Pdf

Harold Innis is widely understood as the proponent of the "Laurentian school" of historiography, which mapped Canadian development along an East-West axis. Harold Innis and the North turns the axis North-South by examining Innis's intense and abiding interest in the North, and providing new perspectives on this seminal figure in Canadian political economy and communication studies. This collection reveals that Innis's advocacy of the North was closely bound up with his vision of northern Canada as the site of a second industrial revolution based on mining, hydro-electric power, pulp and paper, and enabled by new forms of transportation. Long preoccupied with Canada's coming of age as a balanced and integrated industrial nation-state, Innis grappled with the same issues about the North in the Canadian nation that we are dealing with today. Chapters explore the breadth of Innis's northern activities, including his early studies of the fur trade, his biography of eighteenth-century explorer and cartographer Peter Pond, his review essays on the North for the Canadian Historical Review, his leadership of the Rockefeller-sponsored Arctic Survey, and his trip to the Soviet Union. Harold Innis and the North crafts a new narrative about the nature and scope of Innis's intellectual project and provides a unique appreciation of his multi-faceted professional identity. Contributors include Sergei Arkhipov (North-Ossetian State University and NGO Vladikavkaz Institute of Economics) Jeffrey Brison (Queens), George Colpitts (Calgary), Matthew Evenden (UBC), Barry Gough (Churchill College, Cambridge and Kings College, London), Paul Heyer (Wilfrid Laurier), Jim Mochoruk (North Dakota), Liza Piper (Alberta), Shirley Roburn (Concordia), Peter van Wyck (Concordia), Jeff Webb (Memorial).

Political Economy in the Modern State

Harold A. Innis
Political Economy in the Modern State Book PDF

Author : Harold A. Innis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487518912

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Political Economy in the Modern State by Harold A. Innis Pdf

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-War era; the ascent of specialized and mechanized forms of knowledge involving, most particularly, the media, the state, and the academy; the crisis facing civilization and, more generally, the modern penchant for unreflexive short-term thinking in the face of mounting contradictions; and Innis’s growing focus on what would be called media bias. In this new edition, editors Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor provide not only a general introduction to Innis’s largely forgotten book but also dedicated introductions to each of its fifteen chapters and a comprehensive index. Together, Babe and Comor demonstrate how Innis’s volume reflects a shift in Innis’s focus, away from analytical relativism towards, instead, a reflexive search for objective truths.

Harold Innis in the New Century

Charles R. Acland,William J. Buxton
Harold Innis in the New Century Book PDF

Author : Charles R. Acland,William J. Buxton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773567269

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Harold Innis in the New Century by Charles R. Acland,William J. Buxton Pdf

The book is divided into three sections: "Reflections on Innis" provides a historical reassessment of Innis, "Gaps and Silences" considers the limitations of both Innis's thought and his interpreters, and "Innis and Cultural Theory" offers speculations on his influence on cultural analysis. The interpretations offered reflect the changing landscape of intellectual life as boundaries between traditional disciplines blur and new interdisciplinary fields emerge. Harold Innis in the New Century is a valuable resource for scholars and students of Canadian studies, communication studies, cultural studies, economic history, and political science. Contributors include Charles R. Acland (Calgary), Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton (Concordia), James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montréal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Daniel Salée (Concordia), Liora Salter (Osgoode Hall), Kim Sawchuk (Concordia), Irene Spry (professor emerita, Ottawa), Judith Stamps (Victoria), and Andrew Werwick (Trent).

Harold Innis on Peter Pond

William J. Buxton
Harold Innis on Peter Pond Book PDF

Author : William J. Buxton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773559769

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Harold Innis on Peter Pond by William J. Buxton Pdf

Best known for his writings on economic history and communications, Harold Innis also produced a body of biographical work that paid particular attention to cultural memory and how it is enriched by the study of neglected historical figures. In this compelling volume, William Buxton addresses Innis's engagement with the legacy of the fur trader and adventurer Peter Pond. Harold Innis on Peter Pond comprises eight texts by Innis, including his 1930 biography of Pond as well as his writings on the explorer's myriad activities. The book also features a collection of eight letters exchanged between Innis and Florence Cannon, a descendent of Pond with a strong interest in her ancestor's life and times, and an unpublished 1932 article on Pond's 1773–75 activities as a fur trader on the upper Mississippi, written by Innis's former student R. Harvey Fleming. Situating Innis's writings on Pond in relation to his broader body of biographical work, Buxton interprets what these texts tell us about Innis's intellectual practice, historiography, and the writing of biography. The book explores how Innis's perspectives shifted with changing intellectual and political circumstances and shows that his advocacy of Pond as an unrecognized "father of confederation" challenged conventional views of Canadian nation-building. A critical edition of previously overlooked biographical texts, Harold Innis on Peter Pond traces what these writings disclose about the biographer's character and values even as they discuss their subject.

Empire and Communications

Harold Adams Innis
Empire and Communications Book PDF

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547106845

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Empire and Communications by Harold Adams Innis Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Empire and Communications" by Harold Adams Innis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Emergence and Empire

John Bonnett
Emergence and Empire Book PDF

Author : John Bonnett
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773589117

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Emergence and Empire by John Bonnett Pdf

Harold Innis was one of the most profound thinkers that Canada ever produced. Such was his influence on the field of communication that Marshall McLuhan once declared his own work was a mere footnote to Innis. But over the past sixty years scholars have had a hard time explaining his brilliance, in large measure because Innis's dense, elliptical writing style has hindered easy explication and interpretation. But behind the dense verbiage lies a profound philosophy of history. In Emergence and Empire, John Bonnett offers a fresh take on Innis's work by demonstrating that his purpose was to understand the impact of self-organizing, emergent change on economies and societies. Innis's interest in emergent change induced him to craft an original and bold philosophy of history informed by concepts as diverse as information, Kantian idealism, and business cycle theory. Bonnett provides a close reading of Innis's oeuvre that connects works of communication and economic history to present a fuller understanding of Innis's influences and influence. Emergence and Empire presents a portrait of an original and prescient thinker who anticipated the importance of developments such as information visualization and whose understanding of change is remarkably similar to that which is promoted by the science of complexity today.

A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Harold Adams Innis
A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway Book PDF

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1015724302

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A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway by Harold Adams Innis Pdf

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North of Empire

Jody Berland
North of Empire Book PDF

Author : Jody Berland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822388661

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North of Empire by Jody Berland Pdf

For nearly two decades, Jody Berland has been a leading voice in cultural studies and the field of communications. In North of Empire, she brings together and reflects on ten of her pioneering essays. Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, Berland investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time. Her analysis begins with the media landscape of Canada, a country that offers a unique perspective for apprehending the power of media technologies to shape subjectivities and everyday lives, and to render territorial borders both more and less meaningful. Canada is a settler nation and world power often dwarfed by the U.S. cultural juggernaut. It possesses a voluminous archive of inquiry on culture, politics, and the technologies of space. Berland revisits this tradition in the context of a rich interdisciplinary study of contemporary media culture. Berland explores how understandings of space and time, empire and margin, embodiment and technology, and nature and culture are shaped by broadly conceived communications technologies including pianos, radio, television, the Web, and satellite imaging. Along the way, she provides a useful overview of the assumptions driving communications research on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, and she highlights the distinctive contributions of the Canadian communication theorists Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Berland argues that electronic mediation is central to the construction of social space and therefore to anti-imperialist critique. She illuminates crucial links between how space is traversed, how it is narrated, and how it is used. Making an important contribution to scholarship on globalization, Berland calls for more sophisticated accounts of media and cultural technologies and their complex “geographies of influence.”

The Bias of Communication

Harold Adams Innis
The Bias of Communication Book PDF

Author : Harold Adams Innis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780802096067

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The Bias of Communication by Harold Adams Innis Pdf

First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control over its development.

Harold Innis's History of Communications

William J. Buxton,Michael R. Cheney,Paul Heyer
Harold Innis s History of Communications Book PDF

Author : William J. Buxton,Michael R. Cheney,Paul Heyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442243392

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Harold Innis's History of Communications by William J. Buxton,Michael R. Cheney,Paul Heyer Pdf

Exploring how social order changes as the means of communication change, this volume makes widely accessible, for the first time, three extant chapters from Harold Innis’s History of Communications—a legendary manuscript known of by many media historians, but seen by very few.

Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe

Norm Friesen
Media Transatlantic Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German speaking Europe Book PDF

Author : Norm Friesen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319284897

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Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe by Norm Friesen Pdf

This book reflects recent scholarly and theoretical developments in media studies, or Medienwissenschaft. It focuses on linkages between North America and German‐speaking Europe, and brings together and contextualizes contributions from a range of leading scholars. In addition to introducing English‐language readers to some of the most prominent contemporary German media theorists and philosophers, including Claus Pias, Sybille Krämer and Rainer Leschke, the book shows how foundational North American contributions are themselves inspired and informed by continental sources. This book takes Harold Innis or Marshall McLuhan (and other members of the “Toronto School”) as central points of reference, and traces prospective and retrospective lines of influence in a cultural geography that is increasingly global in its scope. In so doing, the book also represents a new episode in the international reception and reinterpretation of the work of Innis and McLuhan, the two founders of the theory and study of media.

Unthinking Modernity

Judith Stamps
Unthinking Modernity Book PDF

Author : Judith Stamps
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773565012

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Unthinking Modernity by Judith Stamps Pdf

Like their European contemporaries, Innis and McLuhan worked toward a theory of how westerners have developed classifications through which they perceive the world. Moreover, Stamps shows that they used insights derived from their North American experience to add a new, media-based perspective to such a theory. Unthinking Modernity offers unique perspectives on the ways in which economics, politics, and media intertwine to create personal and social consciousness.